O'Connor has a number of characters with racist traits but there were three that stuck out to me. ... This scenario and story to me conveys the way The Civil Rights Movement passed through government. ... Tanner in the story was much like everyone else at this time period, unaware of the changes in the black community that had happened or that were going to happen after World War II. ... As before O'Connor almost makes them seem like it is okay to talk to people like that. ... Times were changing and the black community had enough of being treated like a dog. ...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He does this by using primary characters in the novels The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and many short stories who have a problem, like an inner secret, or who have some kind of guilt, and shows how society looks upon these people. ... They were very strict about sins, like lying and adultery, and believed in forgiveness and fair treatment of others. ... When the minister spoke from the pulpit with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and a future bliss or mise...

• Word Count: 3188
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I read many of his short stories and realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. ... In "The Black Cat" the narrator is obsessed with pets; he has one special pet, which is a beautiful black cat. ... Now the story has an added twist as the narrator hopes that the reader, like himself, will be convinced that these events were not "...an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects." ... Superstition has it that Satan and witches assume the form of black cats. ... Once again, the reader wonders if the narrator's perceptions can be believed as he descri...

• Word Count: 4324
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Fitzgerald creates Anthony to be a dreamer, a man trapped in his illusions of what he hoped life would be like. ... There is no need to go through every nasty remark made about Italians, garlic eaters, Negroes, Jewish shopkeepers, the millions "swarming like rats, chattering like apes, smelling like all hell monkeys," (p.394). ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

This makes me feel genuinely frightened because Du Maurier makes the prospect of nature being able to wipe out mankind, very realistic. ... It was bitterly cold and the hard ground was covered in black frost. ... The government on the radio bulletin had thought that it "knew all" and it gave natural explanations for why the birds were behaving like they were. ...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

This makes me feel genuinely frightened because Du Maurier makes the prospect of nature being able to wipe out mankind, very realistic. ... It was bitterly cold and the hard ground was covered in black frost. ... The government on the radio bulletin had thought that it "knew all" and it gave natural explanations for why the birds were behaving like they were. ...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Completely indifferent, their failures, like their hopes, are small, even weak (Jerome, Wallace. 2007: 2827). ... Much later showed it to the narrator when they began going out though he didn't like the poem (Shmoop Editorial Team). ... The narrator doesn't feel like he's "inside anything" now, and he likes the feeling. ... But I didn't feel like I was inside anything.... But the story was first published in 1981, thus Cathedral is set in the days when the switch from black and white to color television was...

• Word Count: 3978
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School